Savory Pumpkin Cream

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 1 1/2 cups pumpkin, cubed, cooked
• 2 cups milk
• 1 tablespoon fat, melted
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon powder ([heaping])
• to taste garlic powder
• to taste curry powder (optional)
• to taste red peppers or to taste black pepper
• assorted herbs

Recipe

• 1 mix pumpkin, milk, fat, flour and egg in a blender until pumpkin is creamy smooth.
• 2 pour into a saucepan, add the seasonings and bring slowly to a simmer over medium heat, stirring as the mixture thickens.
• 3 adjust seasonings.
• 4 serve in individual ramekins as a side dish.
• 5 for the fat i used chicken fat rendered from a bird roasted the previous night.
• 6 for seasonings i used just a pinch of curry powder, about 1/4 tsp of my own chile pepper blend and a scant tsp of some mixed herbs.
• 7 my powder blend is: 1 tsp salt 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp cayenne 1 tbsp paprika 1 dried, powdered habanero my herb mixture is basically equal parts commercial italian mixed herbs, french fines herbes, parsley and poultry seasoning.
• 8 in other words a pinch of just about everything.